The Storytelling Human: Lithuanian Folk Tradition Today - Hardcover

by Lina Būgiene (Editor)

This book offers significant insights into contemporary Lithuanian folklore research. In a balanced way reflecting upon past and present, tradition and modernity, individual and collective, the eight separate essays comprising the book present a condensed view of the popular Lithuanian culture and mentality.

Author Biography

Lina Būgiene is a researcher in Lithuanian traditional and contemporary folk narratives, oral history, and folk belief. She is the author of over two dozen scholarly articles and co-author of two edited collections (in Lithuanian) on local identity and folk memory.